Astrology in June 2015 – Mars Just Entered Cancer

by Robert Wilkinson

Mars just entered Cancer. What does this mean?

It means that how we generally “attack the problems of life,” or how we “take the initiative” is now expressed through the watery sensitivity and self-gathering energies of Cancer. The Sun and Mars have now left the airy curiosity and exploring of Gemini, and are illuminating and initiating life activities in the realm of home, family, feelings, needs, and assuring supply in whatever areas of life need it.

Mars in Cancer also means that any planets or angles we have in Aries or Scorpio have moved out of an airy expression into a water expression. This also impacts the houses where we have these signs, and puts a huge light of activity in the house where we have early Cancer.

While Mars was in Gemini, it brought new beginnings to those with Sun or Ascendant in Gemini, and new emergent developments to those with Sun or Ascendant in Pisces. It put the focus on relationships to those with Sun or Ascendant in Sagittarius, and fulfillment to those with Sun or Ascendant in Virgo.

In the coming weeks, it will bring new beginnings to those with Sun or Ascendant in Cancer, and new emergent developments to those with Sun or Ascendant in Aries. It puts the focus on relationships to those with Sun or Ascendant in Capricorn, and fulfillment to those with Sun or Ascendant in Libra.

Because we already experienced Venus in Cancer between May 7 and June 5, the Sun will illuminate those Venusian experiences, followed by Mars activating results of those experiences. Because Mercury is still in Gemini, we may not come to a full understanding or get a message or idea about these Cancerian developments until it too moves through Cancer between July 8 and 23.

This is next transit of Mars through Cancer since Jupiter occupied that sign between late June 2013 and mid-July 2014. The last Mars conjunct Jupiter cycle began at 6 Cancer in mid-July 2013, and this pass of Mars through that sign re-activates everything that cycle promised us.

That means all the truths, potentials, opportunities, and visions of the future we had during the period between the June 2013 and July 2014 can now be acted upon in new ways, or ways that renew that pulse. It will also bring completion on those things ruled by that conjunction.

Once Mars passes 6 Cancer, it’s still activating those Cancerian Mars-Jupiter energies, but moving through a transition zone where it will begin to activate the promise, truth, vision, and freedom we opened to during Jupiter in Leo. From there, when it enters Virgo in late September, it will activate the Jupiter in early Virgo energy, on route to its next conjunction with Jupiter at 15 Virgo on October 17-18.

Anyway, we’ll all experience a huge shift away from the air element that has predominated the past 7 weeks, and move into more water for 4 weeks, preparing for the huge preponderance of fire for the 2 months between late July and late September. As I offer you in the Lunation articles, Fire and Water are “hot” elements, and volatile. So feelings will be sky high this Summer, with creativity and inspiration available to all who want to open their hearts!